Where to begin

(questions are at the bottom, ramblings are at the top)

Okay, so only 11 topics..  thats not alot of resources for someone looking to get stuck into this... or is Fed up with the POS printer the brought cheap online (yeah, me)

ive got a bunch of mesa hardware, and im familar with lcnc for laser, plasma, milling, routing.

but where do i begin with 3d printing?

hardware, right, so i need

some way to move some axis.. stepgens.
sweet.

some way to heat something up.. pwm + mosfets.
thats easy, just borrow two step gens.

now,  gotta measure those temperatures to make sure im not going to burn my house down..

analog inputs. two of them.

and then some general purpose IO, limits, bed leveling, probing, filament runout sensors,

well thats not to bad. sounds a bit like a job for a 7i96.

so, is there some nice easy way (linuxcnc... easy.. same sentance...) in linuxcnc to map the pwm frequecny(out) to the reading from an analog in, for temperature control? how do i do that? can someone point me in the general direction?

i figure thats the hardest hurdle.

has any one made a nice nifty UI for 3d printin with linuxcnc?

it sounds alot like a job for a 7i96 mesa, but i only have a 7i95 spare (inless i canabalise my 7i96 from my plasma.. and put the 7i95 in there, im not up for that, just yet)

is there any way a 7i95 can read a analog input?

i read there are slicer's that will out put for linuxcnc, which is handy, do i have to add any remapping or custom mcodes, or can i just run this football field naked?

Thanks in advance, you much smarter then me people who take the time to reply

well thatsbhandy knowing the analog ins arent going to be usefull, but a big bag of arduinos (i have a bag of aruinos...) will be usefull as a DAC, good plan!

ill start there!

Right, but i really want to use linuxcnc because i like it

but, i could use the arduino/ESP32, to do the analog readings, and convert to a frequency (like a thcad does) and forward it onto one of the encoder ports i have on the mesa's